Takahiko Iimura Movies

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

"On John's 31st birthday, Yoko held an art exhibit, "This Is Not Here", at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y.. The show was taped and aired...

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

"10 minutes of the act of creation itself run through close up and magnifying lenses. " -T.I.

A document of Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh dance with Kazuo Ohno as the guest dancer shot in Hijikata's early period when he was emerging as the...

One of Takahiko Iimura's (and modern art's) earliest works in conceptual video, A Chair entirely consists of a steady (and usually ghosted) image of...

White Calligraphy is an abstract short made by scratching characters from 'Kojiki', an early Japanese text, into the frames of 16mm black leader.

When I came to the USA in the mid 1960s, it was the high point of the Hippie movement and the black riots. I lived in the East village in New York,...

Anma (The Masseurs) is a representative and historical work by the creator of Butoh dance, Tatsumi Hijikata in his early period in the 1960s. The...

This film, and in particular the function of sound within it will vary freely from moment to moment, viewer to viewer.

A precedent to Iimura's video work where he becomes his own subject, I Saw the Shadow sees Iimura follow his own shadow in and out of vision as he...

A program of five films on love and sex from the Japanese underground of the experimental cinema, assembled by avant-garde cineaste Takahiko Iimura,...

Visually, each section of the film is composed of 10-second spans of clear and dark leader, arranged in a progressive fashion so that at first there...

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

The three faces (two women and one tranvestized man) in the series of close up, which are shot separately in their sexual process of the acting and...

Camera, Monitor, Frame is the first installment of Takahiko Iimura's "Video Semiotics Triptych" (the other two works are Observer/Observed, made in...

Experimental film involving letters.

“Moments At The Rock,” shot with an amateur video camera, was made as a free style improvisational film. The camera got strange halations...

An animation film in which the outline of the image of a stone garden was traced on computer. As the result while the camera-crews moved in...

UKIYO UKARE present details from the shunga, pornographic wood-block prints of Harunobu, Utamaro, and others